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Originally Posted by Tapioca
Unless they live in the company of family, it's still a shitty way to live. Unless you're receiving the equivalent of say 30K per year in benefits, who the hell would want to live off the system when you could enjoy a far better living by working a bit and applying yourself?
Scamming the system is for those who have no self-respect.
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Which is one of the key points and one of the reasons why I'm a big fan of widely distributed social support housing. "You compare yourself to what you are surrounded by". you live in one of those SROs downtown and you're like "Well, at least I'm not some cracked out tweaker meth-head puking in a dumpster and eating out of it a few minutes later."
You put one social housing unit in an otherwise functional place and actually manage to integrate them into part of the community and they'll actually have some social support/pressure to get earning. Telling people to pull themselves up by their bootstraps isn't always enough. If what we're doing now isn't working (providing them practically nothing and saying 'deal with it') then we need to figure out some way to motivate them intrinsically.
Obviously this kind of pressure doesn't work. So let's find one that does.